LONDON FARMERS.
V FINE WAR RECORD. RUGBY, July 13. The heart of London is getting from its own farms hundreds of tons of meat and vegetables yearly for hospitals and other institutions in the Metropolis. London"s citizens are farmers of 4000 acres, mostly within the most severely bombed areas. They own 1500 head of pedigree cattle, 3000 pigs, 7000 head of poultry, and 550 sheep. In the year of tho "blitz" these farms run by the London County Council produced more than ever before —;?60,000 eggs, 550,000 gallons of milk, 351 tons of meat, 1668 tons of vegetables and 81 tons of fruit. In London's parks 200 acres are being worked by tliA borough, councils for food growing, 'while sheep graze on 600 acres. [n the centre of London alone individual Londoners are raising food from their allotments on 450 acres.—Official \Vireless.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 191, 15 July 1941, Page 5
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142LONDON FARMERS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 191, 15 July 1941, Page 5
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